US5891082A - Ballon catheter with light-conductive basic body - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/82—Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/92—Stents in the form of a rolled-up sheet expanding after insertion into the vessel, e.g. with a spiral shape in cross-section
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
- A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
- A61F2/95—Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts
- A61F2/958—Inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M29/00—Dilators with or without means for introducing media, e.g. remedies
- A61M29/02—Dilators made of swellable material
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B90/00—Instruments, implements or accessories specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis and not covered by any of the groups A61B1/00 - A61B50/00, e.g. for luxation treatment or for protecting wound edges
- A61B90/30—Devices for illuminating a surgical field, the devices having an interrelation with other surgical devices or with a surgical procedure
- A61B2090/306—Devices for illuminating a surgical field, the devices having an interrelation with other surgical devices or with a surgical procedure using optical fibres
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
- A61M2025/0004—Catheters; Hollow probes having two or more concentrically arranged tubes for forming a concentric catheter system
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
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- the invention relates to a balloon catheter comprising in the usual manner a tube-like basic catheter body with a proximal and a distal end.
- a balloon member is arranged at the distal catheter end and a connecting member at the proximal end.
- a gas or liquid under pressure can be supplied to the balloon in order to expand the latter via the connecting member, for instance.
- the balloon catheter according to the invention has a basic catheter body which is at least partially light-conductive, comprising a light-absorbing (receiving) section at the proximal end and a light-emitting section at the distal end.
- a basic catheter body which is at least partially light-conductive, comprising a light-absorbing (receiving) section at the proximal end and a light-emitting section at the distal end.
- light can be supplied from the light-absorbing section at the proximal end to the location of the distal end of the catheter, where it is emitted.
- There is in particular a need for this when placing a known stent made of a light-curable plastic material inside the patient.
- the folded or collapsed stent is manoeuvred, carried on the catheter, to the required position in the patient.
- the stent is expanded and, in expanded state, is cured by means of light irradiation through the catheter.
- the catheter is removed, and the stent remains in expanded
- the basic catheter body itself is made so as to be at least partially light-conductive.
- the basic catheter body itself is made so as to be at least partially light-conductive.
- a first advantageous embodiment is characterized by a catheter basic body which comprises an outer tube-like member and an inner tube-like member, with one of the tube-like members being manufactured to be light conductive. This can be accomplished by manufacturing the light-conductive tube-like member entirely out of a light-conductive material such as polymethyl methacrylate or the like. Such a light-conductive tube may be extruded.
- the light-conductive, tube-like member may comprise a tube of braided, light-conductive fibers, reinforced if desired with a plastic reinforcing matrix around the fibers.
- the light conductive member of the catheter also serves as a support tube to fully or partially define the basic catheter body and to provide desired support and stiffness for the catheter.
- An inner, light transmitting, tube-like member can extend out of the outer tube-like member at the proximal end, so that at that point light can be admitted into it by means of a source of light.
- the inner, light transmitting, tube-like member extends within the balloon member and can emit light radially outwardly and evenly around the entire circumference of the balloon.
- the light-conductive integral tube or the braided layer of light-conductive fibers may thus constitute at the same time a reinforcement with which desired properties of the basic catheter body, for example torsion resistance, can be achieved.
- Different fibers, such as for instance thin metal wires, can of course also be incorporated into the braided layer in order to promote the required properties.
- this coating is preferably omitted or stripped from a section of the inner tube-like member situated inside the balloon member, so that this forms the light-emitting end-section.
- the light emitting section positioned inside of the balloon member is altered so that light is substantially emitted radially outwardly toward the balloon. This can be accomplished by roughening the surface of the light conductive tube by etching, or by etching the fibers of the tube, when used, to cause lateral emission of light in this location.
- the light-conductive material used, when manufacturing the catheter according to the invention, is preferably UV-light-conductive.
- UV-curing materials are suitable types of material for making plastic stents which are to cure due to the action of light.
- FIG. 1 shows a partly cut away view of a catheter according to a first embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2 illustrates the end-section of a second embodiment of a catheter according to the invention
- FIG. 3 represents a view of a third embodiment corresponding to FIG. 2;
- FIG. 4 is a cross-section along the line IV--IV of FIG. 3.
- the catheter 1 according to the invention shown in FIG. 1 comprises a basic catheter body 2 which, in the case of this embodiment, is made up of an outer tube-like member 3 and an inner tube-like member 4 extending through a lumen of tube 3.
- a balloon member 5 is arranged on the distal end of the basic body. This balloon member 5 is fixed at a relatively proximal tubular end-section 6 to the outer tube-like member 3.
- the inner tube-like member 4 extends further in a distal direction than the outer tube-like member 3, extending into catheter end section 8, being internally connected within an enlarged-bore portion 9 of end section 8.
- the distal end-section 7 of balloon member 5 is affixed to the outer surface of catheter end section 8.
- Connecting member 11 comprises a connection site 12 which is connected with a flow path 25 formed by the remaining cross-section between the inner tube-like member 4 and the inner wall of the lumen of outer tube-like member 3. Liquid or gas under pressure can be supplied to or removed from the balloon member 5 by this flow path 25 in order to make the balloon 5 expand or contract.
- the inner tube-like member 4 extends proximally out of the connecting member 11 via a connection site 13, where flow path 25 is closed off by means of a seal 24.
- the inner tube-like member 4 is made of a light-conductive plastic material in the form of a tube-like extrusion profile.
- the light passes into the light-absorbing section 15 by the source of light 16, and is conducted through inner tube-like member 4 to the distal end, where the tube-like member 4 forms a light-emitting section 17.
- the outer wall of inner tube-like member 4 has a smooth finish.
- tube-like member 4 is roughened, for instance by grinding.
- light will be emitted in a radial direction through the roughened tube walls, and will irradiate the inside of the balloon member 5.
- balloon member 5 has, in the usual manner, been made of a translucent material, the direct surroundings of the balloon member 5 will be irradiated when light is introduced by light source 16.
- a stent made of a material curable due to the action of light, and which has been positioned around the balloon member 5, can be cured.
- a tubular connecting element 20 is received inside lumen 22 of the inner tube-like member 4.
- This connecting element 20 has a lumen 21, which is thus connected with the lumen 22 of the inner tube-like member 4.
- a guide wire can be introduced through connection 20 into lumen 22.
- lumen 22 connects to a distal lumen 23 inside catheter end section 8, so that the guide wire can extend through the entire length of the catheter, and the catheter can be advanced by passing it over this guide wire.
- inner tube-like member 4 can also be surface-roughened in such a way that the light will be admitted all around its circumference in section 15 thereof, so that a separate connection, such as connection 20, becomes superfluous.
- catheter 30, partly illustrated in FIG. 2 comprises a basic catheter body with an outer tube-like member 31 which has been made so as to be light-conductive.
- the distal end section 32 of the outer tube-like member 31 is situated inside balloon member 33, and has been surface-roughened in such a way that light admitted at the proximal end (not shown) of member 31 is emitted at section 32.
- the inside of the balloon member 33, and in particular the surrounding area can be irradiated in a similar manner to the previous embodiment.
- catheter 30 may be identical to the previous embodiment.
- the outer tube-like member 31 can extend as far as the distal end of the balloon member 33. If desired, in the wall of the outer tube-like member 31, one or more holes are arranged for supplying and removing inflation medium under pressure for the purpose of expanding and collapsing the balloon member. As shown, balloon interior access is only through the end of tube 31.
- the basic catheter body 41 again comprises an outer tube-like member 42 and an inner tube-like member 43.
- a balloon member 44 is arranged in the manner described above, and except as stated, catheter 41 may be basically like previous embodiments.
- the inner tube-like member 43 comprises a braided layer 47.
- the inner tube-like member 43 is made up of an inner layer of plastic material 46 surrounded by a braided reinforcing layer 47, which in its turn is surrounded by a coating of a plastic material 48.
- the tubular layer 47 is made of braided, light-conductive fibers which can conduct the light from the proximal end of the catheter 40 to section 45 of tube member 43 at the distal end thereof.
- the outer tube-like member 42 can be manufactured in a similar manner so as to comprise a braided layer of light-conductive fibers, in which case this outer tube-like member extends into the balloon member where it is stripped of its coating.
- the catheter according to the invention can be manufactured so as to have the same dimensions as a similar catheter without light-conductive properties.
- the cross-section of the basic body can thus remain small.
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